Consider health care benefits.

The worst kind of subsidies export subsidies would be eliminated.

For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge.

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As a result, Argentina priced itself out of world markets for many exports.

The rich have benefited in the short run, by getting massive tax breaks.

These changes make allowances for the preservation of discounted travel on public transportation.

These assumptions turned out to be wrong, as export prices fell steadily over four decades.

If benefits are not reduced, the gap between receipts and expenditures will increase.

Why are Ukrainians able to protest only when their social benefits and are taken away?

Indeed their basic salaries are low, but they enjoy huge benefits and subsidies.

Exports are yet to begin, but the threat of the resource curse is already present.

The strategy may work over the short term in winning export orders for British firms from India.

While that is true, high export prices alone were no guarantee for success.

Russia punished Georgia almost immediately, banning the import of Georgian wines and mineral waters both of which are key export goods.

Both countries suffer from Russian trade embargoes on their most important export products wines and foodstuffs.

The country has already shown that under favorable conditions its exports can compete and grow rapidly.

National governments could establish a personal allowance to exempt retail investors.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock is responsible for creating a list of potential beneficiaries who meet specific criteria.

Commodity export prices are at record levels, global liquidity has been ample, and international interest rates have been low.

Each time, the Yen weakened, making Japan s exports particularly electronics and automobiles more competitive internationally.

While Chinese export industries remain highly competitive, there are understandable doubts about the post crisis state of foreign demand for Chinese products.

On one occasion, a reporter queried the US Treasury on the adverse effects of the strong dollar on exports (at the time, car sales and other exports were suffering.)

The response was that the strong dollar meant a strong economy, and a strong economy strengthens the ability to export.

Moreover, the US should look hard at tax breaks that act like hidden spending programs.

Iran s energy demand will exceed its supply, possibly reducing or even eliminating its oil export capacity in the near future.

Europe favors them by bumping them to the head of waiting lists and giving tax breaks to capital.

Then there are a variety of concessions, exemptions, and surcharges.

Politics can offer all kinds of goods that voters find very attractive tax breaks, subsidies, and social benefits. But small states are less likely to think that they can create the rules of the game, and accordingly they are more willing and able to make adjustments.

Politics can offer all kinds of goods that voters find very attractive tax breaks, subsidies, and social benefits.

Thai import export firms can bet on a run on the baht by accelerating their dollar receipts and delaying their dollar payouts.

And in the House of Representatives, the Republicans unanimously rejected every amendment, every compromise, and every courtesy that he offered.

With rare bipartisan agreement, the Bush administration is proposing a substantial increase in benefits for the elderly. The proposed reforms may cost US taxpayers more than President Bush's massive tax cut of 2001, and one that implies a very significant redistribution from America's young to its old.

In 1986, the government ended its concessions to private companies, returning the forest resources to the communities and communal lands.

High oil prices have created huge export revenues for Middle Eastern governments, which still want to park their earnings in American assets.

So the advanced economies will suffer for a while, with obvious implications for the demand for exports from emerging markets.

All other Palestinians living in Israel would have rights and benefits only under Palestinian law.

The weak and diluted EU Takeover Directive, adopted after more than a decade of debate, fails to facilitate the cross border mergers within Europe that are needed to build world champions. And company based social benefits in some leading European countries weaken corporate flexibility by locking in labor.

The notorious law on monetization of social benefits, which transforms in kind benefits into cash, is a typical example.

A regulatory regime that gave unfair advantages to local businesses would hurt consumers, hamper innovation, and damage competitiveness.

Tax incentives are now used in China to encourage employer plans for retirement saving.

And company based social benefits in some leading European countries weaken corporate flexibility by locking in labor.

Citizens entitled to benefits will be granted discounts on the payment of property taxes first and foremost this concerns the category of pensioners.

And, eventually, some of them will be able to raise capital and start firms of their own export companies owned and operated by Africans.

The world would be better off if most governments pursued policies that boosted growth through domestic demand, rather than beggar thy neighbor export measures.